Focus Report, Volume 75, Number 10, July 1997 Page: 39
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Regulation of retail food stores,
SB 1355 by Brown (Maxey)DIGEST:
-GOVERNOR'S
REASON
FOR VETO:-
RESPONSENOTES:
"Senate Bill 1355 poses a major public health threat by prohibiting state and
local health authorities from requiring food service personnel to avoid bare
hand contact with exposed food. This poses the threat of serious viral and
bacterial contamination of:food, and would prevent public health officials
from responding to a crisis such as aHepatitis 'Aoutbreak, which has
occurred in neighboring states. The bill contains numerous worthwhile
provisions.'The vast majority are already being implemented are
implemented under other legislation from this session or can be implemented
under existing statutory authority."
Sen. J E. "Buster" Brown, the author of SB 1355, was unavailable for
comment. -, .
Rep. Glen Maxeythe House sponsor, said: "The governor was right to veto
this bill. Itwas a huge omnibus bill and it had amendments attached to it that
I thought could be-worked out in conference committee. Unfortunately that
never happened: A lot of good programs were also killed, including a
$250,000 savings to the state in privatizing people who do weights and
(measures at the gas pumps'
"5B 1355 was analyzed in Part 4 of the the May 23 Daily Floor Report.House Research Organization
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SB 1355 would have established an interagency task force to coordinate state
regulation of retail food stores. It also would have amended current laws
relating to weights and measurement devices, inspections and testing, retail
food store licensing and permits, and testing and sale of motor fuels.
The bill would have changed current requirements that food=handlers wash
their hands with soap and water after each visit to the toilet. Instead; food
handlers would have been required either (1) to wash their hands and exposed
portions of their arms with soap and water before starting work, during work
as often as necessary to avoid contamination and after smoking, eating and
each visit to the toilet, or (2)'to avoid bare-hand contact with exposed food by
using gloves or. utensils and washing their hands after smoking, eating and'
each visit to thetoilet. State or local authorities could not have required food
service personnel to avoid bare-hand contact with exposed-food.
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